Daily links for 12/28/2010

• TaoSecurity: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2

  "Thanks to Colin Percival you can try FreeBSD on Amazon EC2! According to Colin's blog more is to come, but for now you can try FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 and FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT. "

  tags: freebsd amazon cloud

• Securosis Blog | Web Application Firewalls Really Work

  "The end result was that WAFs do have value when used properly, and may provide value beyond pure security, but aren't a panacea. Since you could say that about the value of a gerbil for defending against APT too, here's a little more detail..."

  tags: security webapps waf firewall pentesting

• Windows 7 and 2008 R2 IIS FTP Telnet IAC Remote DoS PoC Tutorial

  "The vulnerability occurs when the FTP server attempts to encode Telnet IAC (Interpret As Command) character in the FTP response. "

  tags: security hacking exploit windows video

• IBM Press room - 2010-12-27 IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years - United States

  "Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) formally unveiled the fifth annual "Next Five in Five" – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years: • You'll beam up your friends in 3-D • Batteries will breathe air to power our devices • You won’t need to be a scientist to save the planet • Your commute will be personalized • Computers will help energize your city"

  tags: ibm innovations technology

• Python Shell - Google Chrome extension gallery

  "An online Python shell for your Chrome browser. "

  tags: google chrome browser python shell programming

• Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords | Naked Security

  "On Monday, Mozilla, the developer of popular open source applications like Firefox and Thunderbird, announced that a database containing usernames and password hashes belonging to users of addons.mozilla.org had been posted publicly by accident."

  tags: security privacy mozilla

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